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The Russian authorities do not recognize the elections in the breakaway People's Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk. Presidential aide Yury Ushakov
said that the Kremlin respected, but did not recognize the November 2 elections in the people's republics.

Previously, policy-makers of foreign countries have threatened to tighten sanctions against Russian politicians, officials and businessmen, as well as
state-run companies, should the country recognize the elections in the People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. According to foreign officials, the
elections were held in those territories contrary to the Minsk agreements from September 5th.

"Russia's official position has been expressed in a short, albeit capacious statement from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. It uses the word
"respect," Interfax quoted Ushakov as saying.

When asked whether it was possible to equate "respect" and "recognition", he replied: "These are different words. The word "respect" was chosen
deliberately. We fundamentally respect the will of the voters."

Noteworthy, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov stated that Vladimir Putin was not going to meet with elected heads of the Donetsk and Luhansk
People's Republics Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky.

Your comical so you are willing to use pravda when it serves your propose and agenda which i find that comical. For months just like the western news
outlets you had being claiming that Russia has invaded Ukraine and Crimea. Yet when i challenged you on Crimea you seem to not know much of its
history.

While at the same time you are defending the Tartars of Crimea without even knowing the history. Its clear that your just Demonizing Russia based on
the facts that the news outlets and the words of John McCain.

Toe to Toe these Russians are trained out in the cold (No McDonalds) and are hard as steel whereas your average American personal rely on having ten
inches of steel and better weapons else they would soon be running home crying for mummy.

I don't call Russian soldiers extra tough but that they can survive and function on much less resources. This also does not mean that a US/Western
soldier would collapse on ground if they are thrown in similar circumstances. Items like field kitchen, field medicals etc. are not very popular in
Russian army. As seen "several times" by Ukrainian army experience in Donbass, soldiers have been left to fend for themselves without food, water or
medical care.

There is too much reliance and harshness on individual soldier's physical traits in the Russian army. In maximum 5 years, these will be negated by
robots conducting the perimeter security, reconn and even fighting off the intruders etc.

I have little respect for Russian doctrine of maintaining their army men and machines both. Soldiers are treated like low-humans and even cannon
fodder at times. This can be seen from the fact that Donbass rebels are mostly without any body armor even 7 months after the start of separatist
movement. Not a very honorable way to treat your soldiers who are fighting selflessly for an important cause in favor of Kremlin.

Oh Wait. Your Forgetting if it wasnt for the Germans you wouldn't have the technology to go into Space but dont let the facts remind you.

And you are forgetting that without Robert Goddard's research the Germans might not have developed the technology either. At least we acknowledged
the German contribution, unlike the Soviets, who treated their German engineers like prisoners of war.

The German engineers & scientists should be treated like prisoners of war, as they were both involved with the mass massacres caused by the German
Reich.

America & Britain didn't treat the engineers & scientists or its officers as prisoners of war, they were treated more as guests & they were even at
one point rewarded for there research and were loyal for there hospitality.

I am sure you could explain why they shouldn't be treated as POWs, there are lot of people whom say that they should have being treated as pows.

Like most Americans who pay attention to WW II, I knew that German PoWs were treated reasonably well in the USA, 1942-1944. In part, this was
to encourage other Germans to surrender (though few did voluntarily until the last weeks of the war), in part to encourage the German military to
treat Western PoWs decently (as they did for the most part).

Under the Geneva Conventions, PoWs are to be sent home within months of the end of the war. The Allies instead decided to hold many PoWs
(redesignated "disarmed enemy forces") as slave laborers, providing "labor reparations" to rebuild the damage inflicted by Nazi aggression. In the
West, the demands of France were considered especially compelling -- the Germans had held millions of French PoWs as slave laborers, besides stripping
France to the bone. After screening the PoWs, releasing the old men and boys of the "Volkssturm," and detaining Nazis for prosecution, the USA
transferred 740,000 of the remainder (including some of those shipped back to Europe from the USA) to France . 1,000,000 German Pows remained in US
camps in Germany at the beginning of 1946, but only 38,000 were still left at the beginning of 1947. The Western nations sent their last German PoWs
home in 1948 (often under US pressure), while the Soviets kept theirs as late as 1956.

Some PoWs were kept in the awful "Rheinwiesenlager" because Allies who wanted them as laborers weren't ready to receive them.
Your Free To Debunk it if you want to try. But dont go around claiming that Russia Treated the German engineers as POWs as they should being treated
that way.

Wasn't the war to end the German Reich and the crimes that they had caused? if so. There whole people whom were with the Reich should have being
tread as POWs not guests.

Wasn't the war to end the German Reich and the crimes that they had caused? if so. There whole people whom were with the Reich should have
being tread as POWs not guests.

Once the war is over, prisoners of war are just prisoners. The leaders were tried as war criminals, the rest incorporated into post-war society in the
most effective way.Why do you have a problem with that?

Edit to add: Re-reading what you wrote, it sounds as if you believe that every single German should have been imprisoned and killed. Fight genocide
with genocide? Also added emphasis.

Well we would need to ignore the fact that the USA is trying to fight a war on ten fronts too and your comments about "good soldiers" is baseless as
is the number 100,000 that was plucked from thin air.

It`s not baseless (I wrote a "couple") ...

Personnel is a major problem for the Russian military. Efforts to move from a conscription army to “contract-employed” soldiers (such as the U.S.
volunteer force) have not been successful.

Under Russia’s 10-year reform program of 2009, its military forces (army, navy and air force) should have been at 1 million last year. But a Swedish
Defence Research Agency study released in December had the figure below 800,000. The CRS put it at 700,000.

Still, it remains the region’s largest force. The Russian army is at about 285,000, including conscripts, but units are being manned at 40 to 60
percent, according to the Swedish study.

Contract soldiers, who must serve three years, have not been reenlisting at expected rates, and the dropouts run from 35 percent to 80 percent, the
Swedish study said.

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